GOLD BOOK GENERAL

* "Pro" swimmer second at the finish but winner of the "pro" race (male) - 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1977
** 14,7 Km Circuit in Naples for bad sea-weather conditions - 1981
*** "Pro" swimmer second at the finish but winner of the "pro" race (female) - 1976, 1980, 1981
**** 16 Km Circuit in Naples for bad sea-weather conditions - 2017

EDITION	YEAR	WINNER (male)	NATION	TIME	WINNER (female)	NATION	TIME
1.	1954	Marei Hassan	Egypt	10:00:42	None female swimmer registered
2.	1955	Alfredo Camarero	Argentina	8:45:40	Margareth Feathers	England	12:11:49
3.	1956	Alfredo Camarero	Argentina	11:53:11	None female swimmer at the finish
4.	1957	Tonatiuh Gutiérrez	Mexico	8:58:28	Anna Mazzola	Italy	13:03:55
5.	1958	Tonatiuh Gutiérrez	Mexico	11:08:54	Magda Molnar	Hungary	13:53:12
6.	1959	Laszlo Kovats	Hungary	10:07:24	Greta Andersen	USA	11:05:53
7.	1960 *	Mohamed Zeytun - (AMATEUR)	Syria	10:38:48	None female swimmer at the finish
		Diki Bojadi - (PRO)	Yugoslavia	11:14:03
8.	1961 *	Mohamed Zeytun - (AMATEUR)	Syria	8:43:28	Soheir Baki	Egypt	11:38:59
		Carlos Larreira - (PRO)	Argentina	9:09:17
9.	1962 *	Nabil El Shazly - (AMATEUR)	Egypt	8:04:17	Soheir Baki	Egypt	10:16:11
		Abdel Gelil - (PRO)	Egypt	8:12:48
10.	1963	Abdel Abou Heif - Mohamed Ali	Egypt	8:49:35	Athena Bojadi	Yugoslavia	10:46:19
11.	1964	Abdel Abou Heif - Mohamed Zeytun	Egypt  Syria	10:43:52	None female swimmer at the finish
12.	1965 *	Mamhoud Hanafi - (AMATEUR)	Egypt	9:21:49	Judith De Njis	Netherlands	10:20:47
		Giulio Travaglio - (PRO)	Italy	9:25:12
13.	1966	Giulio Travaglio	Italy	8:15:13	Judith De Njis	Netherlands	9:53:52
14.	1967	Giulio Travaglio	Italy	8:37:13	Judith De Njis	Netherlands	8:55:13
15.	1968	Giulio Travaglio	Italy	8:12:52	Gisella Ghebardt	Hungary	10:06:13
16.	1969	Marawan Saleh	Syria	11:01:20	None female swimmer at the finish
17.	1970	Giulio Travaglio	Italy	7:32:47	Judith De Njis	Netherlands	8:54:14
18.	1971	Veljko Rogosic	Yugoslavia	7:43:51	Shedia El Rageb	Egypt	11:42:29
19.	1972	Veljko Rogosic	Yugoslavia	7:32:50	Shedia El Rageb	Egypt	11:18:57
20.	1973	Veljko Rogosic	Yugoslavia	9:21:12	Angela Marchetti	Argentina	12:09:31
21.	1974	Veljko Rogosic	Yugoslavia	7:05:41	Diana Nyad	USA	8:11:20
22.	1975	Ahmed Youssef	Egypt	7:14:42	Sahara Mansour	Egypt	8:42:40
23.	1976 ***	Marawan Gazawi	Egypt	9:05:34	Omnia Tantawi - (AMATEUR)	Egypt	10:19:32
					Loren Passfield - (PRO)	Canada	11:02:52
24.	1977 *	Nasser El Shazly - (AMATEUR)	Egypt	7:36:05	Mona Hussein	Egypt	8.26.52
		Maher Saleh - (PRO)	Syria	7:40:00
25.	1978	John Kinsella	USA	10:28:00	None female swimmer at the finish
26.	1979	Claudio Plit	Argentina	7:40:41	Mona Hussein	Egypt	8:41:06
27.	1980 ***	Claudio Plit	Argentina	9:15:51	Caroline Wordsworth - (AMATEUR)	New Zeland	10:13:59
					Tina Bishoff (PRO)	USA	10:16:40
28.	1981 **/***	Claudio Plit	Argentina	3:31:08	Christine Carr - (AMATEUR)	New Zeland	3:38:58
					Tina Bishoff - Mona Hussein (PRO)	USA  Egypt	4:02:15
29.	1982	Paul Asmuth	USA	6:35:03	Joke Van Stevaren	Netherlands	8:27:01
30.	1983	Nasser El Shazly	Egypt	8:55:21	Irene Van Der Laan	Netherlands	10:08:52
	1984-1985	Not held
31.	1986	Claudio Plit	Argentina	8:56:20	Monique Wildschut	Netherlands	9:10:35
32.	1987	Paul Asmuth	USA	6:46:58	Irene Van Der Laan	Netherlands	7:54:05
33.	1988	Paul Asmuth	USA	7:47:56	Anemie Landmeters	Belgium	9:08:40
34.	1989	Diego Degano	Argentina	6:40:38	Monique Wildschut	Netherlands	7:26:30
35.	1990	David Alleva	USA	6:57:41	Shelley Taylor-Smith	Australia	7:44:11
36.	1991	David O’ Brien	Australia	6:48:55	Shelley Taylor-Smith	Australia	7:19:21
37.	1992	Diego Degano	Argentina	6:38:35	Marian Cassidy	USA	7:11:10
	1993-2002	Not held
38.	2003	Petar Stoychev	Bulgaria	6:47:13	Angela Maurer	Germany	7:00:08
39.	2004	Yuri Kudinov	Russia	7:01:51	Ivanka Moralieva	Bulgaria	7:55:30
40.	2005	Petar Stoychev	Bulgaria	7:17:12	Britta Kamrau	Germany	7:53:23
41.	2006	Yuri Kudinov	Russia	7:08:56	Angela Maurer	Germany	7:10:13
42.	2007	Alexander Studzinski	Germany	7:04:19	Alessandra Romiti	Italy	7:40:41
43.	2008	Stéphane Gomez	France	7:33:46	Britta Kamrau	Germany	7:56:26
44.	2009	Rotislav Vitek	Czech Rep.	6:42:55	Camilla Frediani	Italy	7:59:36
45.	2010	Damian Blaum	Argentina	6:58:05	Alessandra Romiti	Italy	7:26:58
46.	2011	Rotislav Vitek	Czech Rep.	7:05:49	Pilar Geijo	Argentina	7:34:21
47.	2012	Trent Grimsey	Australia	6:29:02	Esther Nunez	Spain	7:08:02
48.	2013	Brian Ryckeman	Belgium	6:13:55	Martina Grimaldi	Italy	6:31:23
49.	2014	Vitalij Khudyakov	Kazakistan	6:11:27	Ana Marcela Cunha	Brazil	6:24:47
50.	2015	Damian Blaum	Argentina	6:22:13	Alice Franco	Italy	6:29:54
51.	2016	Evgenij Pop Acev	Macedonia	6:17:04	Pilar Geijo	Argentina	6:46:34
52.	2017 ****	Matteo Furlan	Italy	3:53:37	Ana Marcela Cunha	Brazil	3:58:03
53.	2018	Francesco Ghettini	Italy	6:56:11	Barbara Pozzobon	Italy	7:19:05
54.	2019	Andrea Bianchi	Italy	6:48:32.2	Barbara Pozzobon	Italy	7:25.31
55.	2020	Marcel Schouten	Netherland	6:05:07 men's record	Arianna Bridi	Italy	6:04.26 overall record